1. Ideal is a person's yearning for and pursuit of possible goals in the future, or something that a person yearns for or wants to imitate, and it is a person's subjective image. Ideal is the goal that one pursues and strives for. For example, when you ask a middle school student what his ideal is, his answer may be that he will become a scientist, engineer or writer in the future. Scientists, engineers and writers are the goals and objects that middle school students actively yearn for and pursue. These goals and targets reflect the personal wishes of middle school students and guide their direction and future. Here, the ideal is related to a person's wishes, and it is an idea of the future. Its place of residence is not directly related to the current action. However, ideals and real life are linked. If some objects and phenomena in real life meet personal needs and personal world outlook, these realistic factors will be manifested in personal ideals and forms. Ideal is always a reprocessing process of real life, discarding some components and emphasizing some factors, but it must be based on the understanding of objective laws and conform to them. For example, when a film director creates an ideal character, this character is not only the director's re-processing and re-selection of the real character, but also makes this character conform to the director's wishes; But this character must conform to the objective laws and be integrated with the real life environment, otherwise, this character will become a "Gao Daquan" on the surface and a "fake sky" in essence, and it is impossible to truly become a typical character with flesh and blood and personality. From the content of a person's ideal, it can be divided into two categories: personal ideal and social ideal. Personal ideal is the vision and hope for personal future, including career ideal, truth ideal, life ideal and family ideal; Social ideal is the pursuit and yearning for a better social system. Personal ideal and social ideal are interrelated, in which social ideal is at the highest level, is the core of ideal, restricts personal ideal, and personal ideal is the concrete embodiment of social ideal. If a person does not have lofty social ideals, but only pursues his own personal ideals divorced from social reality, it is not in line with the spirit of the times and is also a low-level ideal; On the other hand, if there is only social ideal without personal ideal, it is also empty and unrealistic. A person's ideal is often formed and developed under the influence of family education, school education and social environment. Generally speaking, with the growth of age, the growth of knowledge, the broadening of horizons, the influence of family and school gradually weakened, the influence of society gradually increased, and ideal forms also existed at different levels. Some psychologists in our country divide the ideal form of middle school students into three development levels from the cognitive point of view: one is the primary level, that is, the concrete image ideal, which is mainly manifested in the lower grades of middle school students; One is intermediate, that is, the ideal comprehensive image, which is mainly manifested in middle school students; One is a higher level, that is, universal ideal, which is mainly manifested in senior three students. In other words, the older the middle school students, the higher their grades and the higher their ideal level. With regard to the development level of middle school students' ideal tendency, Chinese psychologists divide middle school students' ideals into the following four types through questionnaire survey, direct dialogue and analysis: the first type: the ideal is superficial and vague, with no clear direction and goal. For example, "I have no idea about the future, I just want to live freely", "I think what kind of person I want to be, I'm not sure yet" and so on. The emergence of this mentality is related to the age, knowledge and physical and mental development level of teenagers at this stage. Because their thoughts are immature and their education can't keep up, they still lack clear goals. The second category: longing and longing for the future, but not conscious enough, sometimes vacillating. For example, "my family and teachers always encourage me to work hard, and I am encouraged by the exemplary deeds of advanced figures, but I shrink back when I encounter difficulties." The ideological mainstream of these students is upward, but they still lack persistence and firmness. The third category: the ideal is to find a good job in the future. For example, "I want to go to college in the future and find an ideal job." This kind of students associate their ideals with their careers, but often separate their personal goals from the future of the country and the interests of the people, which requires strengthening political and ideological work and education on outlook on life. The fourth category: have lofty ideals, organically combine personal interests with national interests, and be able to make down-to-earth efforts. For example, among many high school students who are about to graduate, the idea of accepting the choice of the motherland and obeying the arrangement of the motherland can be established. This kind of students have a higher level of understanding and their ideals are more in line with the spirit of the times. Facts show that most middle school students have lofty ideals at present, which reflects that the mainstream of middle school students is healthy and upward. 2. Belief refers to a person's personality tendency to firmly believe in the correctness of a certain point of view and dominate his own actions. Faith is a conscious ideological tendency, which encourages a person to act according to his own views, principles and world outlook. It is the direction and goal of a person's efforts in long-term practical activities based on his own life content and accumulated knowledge. Faith has a sense of firmness. Countless revolutionary martyrs firmly believe that only socialism and capitalism can save China and free the people of China from exploitation and oppression and lead a happy life. So socialism and * * * productism became their beliefs, and they stood firm and went forward, even if they gave their lives for it. Xia, a revolutionary martyr, wrote a just poem, "It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true, Xia will be killed and future generations will come", which reflects the firm belief of this generation of revolutionaries in * * * integrism. Faith has a sense of stability. Generally speaking, belief is a person's stable and long-term view and recognition of social development direction, natural laws and a theoretical viewpoint, and shows great enthusiasm and deep feelings for it. Only when a person has a firm belief can he make his personality initiative and enthusiasm; People who lack faith are often ambiguous, vacillating and prone to political and action deviations. Under the complicated international situation, the drastic changes in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the temporary low tide of the socialist movement, some people have a "crisis of faith" and questioned the future and destiny of socialism. In this situation, it has become an urgent political task to educate middle school students and the whole young generation to establish a firm belief in socialism and consciously curb the corrosion of bourgeois ideas. This generation of middle school students and teenagers, only by firmly establishing the belief of socialism and * * * production, can make them have correct goals, clear directions and firm actions, and consciously shoulder the historical responsibility of training themselves as successors to the socialist cause.